This guide covers what a vLAN is, and how you can request one for your Dedicated Servers.

• What is a vLAN?
• How can I request a vLAN?
• What IPs can I use?

What is a vLAN?

A private vLAN allows customers with multiple dedicated servers on our network to use a single shared layer 2 network.

This means that servers can communicate directly to each other, and share IP addresses.

This can be helpful for applications requiring floating IP addresses, or a private layer 2 network between servers.

This can also be helpful for hypervisors (such as proxmox) so IPs can be used across the entire cluster.

How can I request a vLAN?

Don't worry, its quite simple! Simply contact our support team, and we will assign a private vLAN across your servers.

Every dedicated server provisioned with VoltHosting is already within its own vLAN. Thus, you can only request this change if you have two or more dedicated servers that you wish to link together in the same vLAN.

What IPs can I use?

If you would like to purchase additional IPv4/IPv6 addresses for your Private vLAN, please contact our support team and we will generate a order for you to increase your allocation.

We also support BYOIP on our Private vLANs, please contact our support team if you wish to bring your own IPv4/IPv6 addresses. We are able to use our ASN (AS214188) to announce your IP addresses, or you can use your own ASN.

Please note the requirements for announcing your own IPs are:

• IPv4: At least a /24 CIDR range (254 IPs)
• IPv6: At least a /48 CIDR range (1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 IPs)

These restrictions are imposed by the way that the internet is designed, as typically any smaller ranges will be dropped.

Updated on: 02/02/2026